HELP! - how to fill out a widescreen tv screen?

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HELP! - how to fill out a widescreen tv screen?

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Im creating dvds using both photos and videos that are close to the standard widescreen aspect ratio, so Im trying to make moviefactory create a dvd that will play without borders on a 16:9 widescreen pal tv. Should I choose the 16:9 display or 4:3 display option within MF? Ive tried one of my MF7 created dvds on 2 tvs so far (with the dvd display set to 16:9 within MF). On a normal non-widescreen 4:3 television, they work and display fine. My menu, slideshows and movies look widescreen, identical to any widescreen movie I would watch on the same 4:3 tv, with top and bottom borders.

BUT... Im assuming that when I choose to create a dvd in MF with a display of 16:9, I am actually adding black borders to the slideshows or videos themselves, and not truly creating a dvd that will play undistorted (without borders), on a true widescreen tv? I say this, as when I try my same dvds on a widescreen 16:9 tv, although the dvds are shown in the correct aspect ratio, everything is reduced in size on screen, in both menu and content! So there is a large black area top and bottom, as well as left and right. I can zoom in using the dvd remote, so that the content takes up as much of the widescreen tv's screen as possible (so that I see less border), but this squashes the screen contents, since the black top and bottom areas are always there-i assume they are part of the overall image.

So I am wondering how to create MF7 dvds which will take up most of the display of a widescreen tv, with both contents and menu, with no black borders? Do I solve this by setting my dvd display within MF to use 4:3, if the 16:9 option in MF is there only to add top and bottom black borders to all content (which is perhaps really only suitable for wanting to watch widescreen content on a 4:3 tv)? Or do I solve this another way by using a higher resolution? Or do none of these methods work, if widescreen tvs are not truly supported yet? I used the default widescreen menus, and had set my dvd to create in 16:9, using the MF display option.

thanks for any help if possible :|
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